Regular Meals and Weight Loss 

Another great way to keep the weight off long term is to eat smaller meals through the day. Eating smaller meals during the day actually tricks the mind into keeping the metabolism high.

When a person is hungry they will automatically know it and the brain releases a hormone called grelin which tells you that you're hungry and if a person is extremely hungry they may eat more calories than they really need?

I know I have in the past! But if you follow the rules of eating small meals and often the grelin hormone is not secreted and the body stays at a high level of fat burning all day long. 

The body wants to feel satisfied. It hates being starved. Eating little and often is a great way to keep the body at an optimum fat burning level. Eating every 2-3 hours a meal of around 300 calories is sufficient to keep the metabolism high all day long.

Eating your meals every day in this way may even help you lose weight as long as you keep the portion sizes pretty low and remember to eat every 2-3 hours. The most important thing about weight loss and how fast a person loses weight is through the important metabolism in the body.  

Around 10% of the daily calories are burnt through something called dietary thermogenesis which basically means that whenever food is taken into the body the body automatically heats up and the metabolism is raised because the body is in the beginning process of digesting, absorbing and using the the nutrients of the food.

It is a wonderful process that takes place in the body every time food is eaten. So therefore keeping the metabolism high by eating little and often weirdly tricks the mind into dietary thermogenesis so the metabolism is raised all day. Even though it's not a high percentage per day everything counts in terms of long term weight loss. 

The resting metabolism or the BMR - Basal Metabolic Rate is the amount of calories needed by the body to stay alive. This accounts for around 60% of the average calories burned per person.

Then there are the calories burned from activities such as brushing your teeth or washing up. Every activity burns calories even though they may be a small amount and it counts for around 30% of the daily calories taken in. 

Food is important and if it is eaten little and often there are ways of boosting the metabolism that doesn't involve exercise. How good is that? Just think about it when you can tell your friends that the key to your long term weight loss is through eating all day. Even show them wherever you are.

Even a snack of a banana as long as food is eaten 5-6 times per day, around every 2-3 hours eventually your friends may start to realise that starving the body is NOT the way to long term weight loss.